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...JULIE WILKINSON Melbourne, Australia...
...Falling sales prices and higher manufacturing costs could mean a shakeout is inevitable in the next several years, says Anthony Wilkinson, chief of power and gas research at CLSA in Hong Kong. Because it's difficult at this stage to pick winners and losers, those who still like the industry's long-term outlook may want to buy the stocks of several to spread their risk. Solar-cell stocks are having their day in the sun right now. But in the highly cyclical silicon-chip industry?even this promising new corner of it?night surely follows...
...Venice”) and the wonderfully named Lord Darlington (Stephen Cambell Moore, “Bright Young Things”), are so instantly forgettable that it is lucky that few of the important plot twists lie in their hands. The movie does, however, have a few saving graces. Tom Wilkinson (“Shakespeare in Love”) gives a splendid performance as Tuppy, a charming British aristocrat with no qualms about being loved for his money. Wilkinson delivers Wilde’s dialogue with ease. In fact, Wilkinson’s performance, along with Wilde’s witticisms...
Died. FRANK WILKINSON, 91, anti-poverty Los Angeles public-housing official turned civil rights activist, and one of the last two people in the U.S. to be jailed for refusing to answer the question, Are you a communist?; in Los Angeles. In the early '50s, at a hearing for an innovative low-income, racially integrated housing project?one viewed with suspicion by the city's business leaders?an official asked for a list of his affiliations. After refusing to answer, and later doing the same before the House Un-American Activities Committee, he was fired, spent nine months in jail...
...part of the timing comes down to who gets the nod. Until recently, Roberts' carefully measured conservatism left many legal experts certain that Bush would make a much more conservative second pick, tapping someone like appeals court Judges J. Michael Luttig or J. Harvie Wilkinson III, who have long been darlings of the conservative bar. But Bush's weaker political standing may nudge him another way now, toward someone like Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson, an African American or a woman like appellate court Judge Edith Clement...